Platform (Android, iOS, Website): website Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : chrome URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=research&taxon_id=52911&month=10 Screenshots of what you are seeing:…

I can confirm similar behaviour for Firefox 80.0. The spurious annotations disappear when the dialog is closed and reopened.

This should be merged with existing topic.

I don’t think they merge bug reports, though. P.S. not saying it can’t be done, just that it usually isn’t. I’ve seen lots of “duplicate” topics in the bug reports category Probably either: Because there can be only one set of reporting details at the top when you merge them Each counts as it’…

Then again I’m assuming staff are using the bug report category on the forum in tandem with github as an analog to a ticketing tool (eg. ServiceNOW, where when multiple end users submit incident tickets you create a Problem ticket that links to all the individual reports). That’s just conjecture an…

Well, my own bug report was merged, so they do that.) Plus 1st topic have multiple ppl complaining already, as this bug is on for a half a year or so.

thanks for pointing out the existing topic

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thomaseverest August 30, 2020, 6:38pm 7

Looks like the same issue as this one: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/multiple-annotations-of-the-same-attribute/8269/20

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Multiple annotations of the same attribute Bug Reports	25	1346	January 4, 2021
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Annotation weirdness Bug Reports	0	463	August 20, 2020
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Moving between 2 observations in identify URL duplicates annotations Bug Reports identify	6	368	February 8, 2024

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